Gloria Martinez and an unnamed relative received cash, an apartment, jewelry, a consulting salary and a share of contract payments from three companies -- totaling $425,000 -- in return for inside information that helped the companies win $75 million in contracts, according to a bill of information filed by prosecutors on Friday.

Another design/build contract she oversaw was to build the Afghanistan National Civil Order Police building in Naw Bahar, Zabul Province in Afghanistan.

She also oversaw a contract for construction of 84 two-story district headquarters in Afghanistan, according to records listed on the FedBizOpps Web site.

In 2005, Martinez won the Equipping and Sustaining our Soldiers Individual Award from the Department of Defense.

Defense attorney Vinny Mosca said Martinez will be arraigned today and will plead guilty to the charges before U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon on Wednesday.

He said his client wants to apologize to the corps for her actions.

"Miss Martinez is accepting responsibility for her conduct, " Mosca said. "She is remorseful. She spent numerous years in service to the Corps of Engineers, and she realizes this is a blemish on her record."

The charging document says that Martinez, a relative and others passed inside information about contracts to the companies between June 2005 and December 2007 in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, while Martinez served as a supervisory contract specialist stationed in the Gulf Regional Division in Baghdad, and as a supervisory procurement analyst with the Afghanistan Engineer District in Kabul.

In Afghanistan, the charges say, Martinez was chief of contracting.

In June 2005, "Company A" hired Martinez's relative for six months at a salary of $5,000 a month, plus living expenses and an apartment in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Private school tuition also was paid for the relative's two dependents.

In June 2006, Martinez accepted use of an apartment in Dubai from "Company One" and "Person A." In late 2007, Person A transferred $40,000, which was six months of rental income from the Dubai apartment, to Martinez's bank account in Germany.

Between June 2005 and October 2006, Martinez, through her relative, provided Company One with contract information and favored the company in awarding more than $23 million in corps contracts, the charges say.

In June 2006, Martinez accepted a $25,000 Rolex watch from the company and Person A, according to the charges.

In early 2006, Company Two hired Martinez's relative as a consultant for about 10 months at $5,000 a month. Martinez attempted to arrange for Company Two's employees to live on a U.S. military installation in Iraq and for their access to military medical treatment and post exchange facilities.

Company Three also hired Martinez's relative in 2006 for at least 18 months as a consultant, at a salary of about $5,000 a month plus 10 percent of the value of contract upgrades.

In May 2007, Martinez met with her relative and Persons C and D -- owners of Company Three -- in Dubai, where the two owners offered Martinez a job. She declined, but instead asked them to "take care" of her relative. The two owners then "placed $10,000 in cash in defendant's shopping bag, " the bill of information says.

In August 2007, Martinez helped Company Three win a $5.6 million settlement involving a contract the company "had failed to adequately perform." Martinez's assistance included passing on inside information and discouraging a corps audit of the company's settlement requests, the bill of information says.

In October 2007, that company paid for airfare and hotel charges for Martinez and her relative to fly from Afghanistan to Lebanon. The same month, Person E, another owner of Company Three, gave her a gold and gemstone necklace, while Person C gave her a diamond bangle bracelet and a gold ring, necklace and earrings.

Between then and December 2007, Martinez, through her relative, gave Company Three more information and assistance in wining another $50 million in corps contracts.

Martinez is charged with receiving money and other things of value for herself and her relative totaling $285,000 from Company One and $140,000 from Company Three.

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Mark Schleifstein can be reached at mschleifstein@timespicayune.com or 504.826.3327.